AfriGeneas at the Movies

Booker's Place

The short story goes: In 1966, Frank De Felitta produced an NBC News documentary about race relations in Greenwood, Mississippi - a town famous for its lynchings of African Americans (plantations still existed, whippings were commonplace, as were church bombings), as tensions caused by the growing Civil Rights movement were at a near peak - focusing primarily on the people of Greenwood.

55 years later, Frank's son Raymond De Felitta follows in his father's footsteps with Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which we could call an update to his father's original, almost as a compare/contrast of how much (or how little) has changed over that 5+ decade period.